Job Overview
An exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Staff Nurse to join the Respiratory Team. Two posts available. The successful candidate will work mainly on the Respiratory Service at Royal Blackburn Hospital and St Peters, assisting specialist nurses to deliver quality care for patients attending the hospital for respiratory diagnostic procedures and pleural diseases. The Respiratory Team also delivers the Home Oxygen service and Pulmonary rehab service, so the role crosses multiple specialist areas.
Main Duties
The Department provides a wide range of comprehensive clinical services for patients with lung conditions including lung cancer, tuberculosis, pleural disease, and patients requiring non‑invasive ventilation at home. The candidate will provide Home Oxygen and pulmonary rehab along with respiratory diagnostics, bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound procedures, thoracoscopy, and daily pleural service for in‑patients and outpatients. The post requires flexible daytime shift work across 7 days. The service is committed to training and developing staff; any required training will be provided.
Working for Your Organisation
The post holder may participate in other elements of the Respiratory Service, such as the Pulmonary Rehabilitation programme and the Oxygen Service, and develop experience of the wider Respiratory Directorate. As the post may require domiciliary visits and community clinics across East Lancashire, a car driver is essential.
Job Responsibilities
- High standards of accuracy, literacy, and numeracy skills
- Ability to manage care for a group of patients and prioritise workload
- Confident at dealing with people over the telephone and face to face
- Ability to understand, absorb, and comply with detailed procedure
- Clear and accurate written and verbal communication
- Effective listening skills
- Able to take on board new ideas, skills, and knowledge
- Able to manage priorities under pressures
- Able to use own initiative and work without close supervision within agreed protocols
Person Specification: Qualifications
Essential
- Active registration with the NMC as a Registered Nurse
- Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of a professional portfolio, registration revalidation, and commitment to lifelong learning
Desirable
- Postgraduate teaching qualification or willingness to work towards it
Experience
- Experience in an Acute Medical Setting
- Experience in caring for patients with respiratory conditions
Knowledge / Skills
- Acts as a role model and leads by example to reinforce the Trust’s values and behaviours throughout the area of practice
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Able to supervise non-registered staff to ensure effective service and care delivery
- Work with enthusiasm and genuine interest within the multidisciplinary team
Professional Values & Responsibilities
- Act with professionalism and integrity, and work within agreed professional, ethical and legal frameworks and processes to maintain and improve standards
- Act as a role model
- Communicate and collaborate with other health and social care professionals and agencies, service users, carers and families to ensure shared decision‑making
- Assess, plan, deliver, and evaluate nursing care in accordance with UK law, the NMC code of conduct, and the Trust values
- Deliver high‑quality essential care to all persons in care
- Deliver complex care to service users in their field of practice
- Act to protect the public and be responsible and accountable for safe, person‑centred, evidence‑based nursing practice
- Practice in a compassionate, respectful way, maintaining dignity and wellbeing and communicating effectively
- Act on understanding of how lifestyles, environments, and care settings influence health and wellbeing
- Seek every opportunity to promote health and prevent illness
Leadership, Management and Team Working
- Work effectively as a member of the multidisciplinary team
- Manage a patient/caseload within defined clinical area
- Use leadership skills to supervise and manage others and contribute to planning, designing, delivering, and improving future services
- Organise own time and that of non‑registered staff, students, and other learners as appropriate
- Support senior staff in management and supervision of the defined clinical area
- Actively contribute to a good learning environment by mentoring and assessing learners
Contact
Diane Gaiger, Respiratory Team Leader, Email: Diane.gaiger@elht.nhs.uk, Sandra Bain, Email: Sandra.Bain@elht.nhs.uk, Telephone: 01254 734583 / 01254 732191
The advert closes on Wednesday 20 May 2026.
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